Fully antisymmetrised dynamics for bulk fermion systems
Abstract
The neutron star's crust and mantel are typical examples of non-uniform bulk systems with spacial localisations. When modelling such systems at low temperatures, as is the case in the crust, one has to work with antisymmetrised many-body states to get the correct fermion behaviour. Fermionic molecular dynamics, which works with an antisymmetrised product of localised wave packets, should be an appropriate choice. Implementing periodic boundary conditions into the fermionic molecular dynamics formalism would allow the study of the neutron star's crust as a bulk quantum system. Unfortunately, the antisymmetrisation is a non-local entanglement which reaches far out of the periodically repeated unit cell. In this proceeding, we give a brief overview how periodic boundary conditions and fermionic molecular dynamics can be combined without truncating the long-range many-body correlation induced by the antisymmetry of the many-body state.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1111.3221,
title = {Fully antisymmetrised dynamics for bulk fermion systems},
author = {Klaas Vantournhout and Hans Feldmeier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.3221},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
to appear in the proceedings of the "2nd Iberian nuclear astrophysics meeting (September 22-23 2011 : Salamanca, Spain)